OK concerning your first problem.  Your server has to be set up using SSL 
to allow you to connect to it using SSL.  If it is not, the two boxes will 
not be communicating in the same veritable language, so cannot understand 
each other.

Second problem.  Master mode means that after you have altered your 
project, when you click the save button, both your local copy and the 
remote copy (the one on your webserver) will be updated.  In local mode, 
the remote copy will not be updated until you explicitly do so.

Third problem.  Mostly correct.  If you have an InterDev project already 
started, you can open it.  If you just have a bunch of ASP files, but no 
project file, you can't.  So, yes, if you are creating a new project, you 
select "Create a new web app.."

Your fourth problem, I don't really understand what you're asking.  Sorry.

Last problem.  Yes, I'd say a java applet would be best.  Just parse the 
string of the user name into an array, then loop through ( from i=0 to 
UBOUND) and do something like src= array[i] + ".jpg" or whatever.

Hope I was able to help you out.

Grant